Jobbridge allowance & signing off

Hello,

Advice really needed, I left my jobbridge to move on to a paid job, I left with about 10 weeks left on the internship. Unfortunately the job never worked out.

Heres the thing, i never signed off the jobbridge, because when I started the job, I realised that on day one that this was not going to work out. I kept the allowance open so maybe I could go back, but the host company on jobbridge could not take me back. I know I should have just went to the dole office and explained etc..but it just got out of hand, with the offices closed over Christmas etc, i just kept thinking i would get work and I could sign off completely. My jobbridge end date was this week.

I'm still out of work, trying really hard to get something, and if I contact the dole office about my situation I will probably have to repay the money, money I don't have. I don't know what to do,

Can anyone advise?